Is there a problem with this diagram?

While not a mistake per se, it would be nice if they brought back the old tone chart, in PDF format, with all the newer pups on it. It was a great quick reference that you could view offline.

Also, many of the pups on the website are missing their model number. Makes it difficult sometimes, when you're checking on a pup in a drawer.

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Hey just wanted to get this diagram out there. Was sent over in an email from SD support. It’s for 3 stack sss setup with liberator volume pot and a tone push/pull switch for single coil split. I looked on Seymour’s website and seems like they don’t have this one listed.
 

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I recently wired this up in my PR/LP hybrid that I built and found two errors:

One - Missing jumper from Pin3 to GND on the bridge voume
Two - Wire from middle toggle switch pole goes to the wrong lug on tone, making the knob work backwards. Lol

Ok, so now to my question. The coil split and phase push/pull switches work exactly as intended, but the series/parallel push pull on the neck volume make the bridge pickup drop out almost entirely. Is this just a limitation of the wiring/switching? If you put the toggle to the middle position, both the bridge and neck volume will still work.

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks you. ​
 

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I haven't wired this but I was reviewing it because weekendwarrior was looking to modify it in another thread. I'm not sure if its an error or just mis-labeled.

It says:
"Position 4: Bridge Humbucker plus Neck Split"

Tracing the signal path, P4 will be both humbuckers split - Neck Slug coil and Bridge Screw coil.

The Bridge Black wire is not connected in Pos 4 so it can't be full bridge output. Looks like everything else would work but the wording is confusing.


2H_5WSPL_1V_1T.pd
2 HUMBUCKER | 1 VOLUME
1 TONE | 5 WAY BLADE (with coil split)​

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I seem to have it in the back of mind that active pickups shouldn't use the bridge ground. (The actual bridge. Not the pup.)
But all of the active wiring diagrams show it being connected.

Am I remembering this correctly?
 
As supporting evidence I submit the many threads here where people connect Blackouts to an EMG harness, and EMG has never used the string ground. I found this one (and only one) Blackouts diagram BO_3G_2V_2T.pdf the LP style setup does omit the string ground.

EDIT - no sorry I read that diagram wrong it has string ground to pointing towards the battery...
 
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aargh...I looked at that diagram 10 times and missed the string ground going towards the battery :sad: On the others its going to the right side...

EMG manuals have always said to remove the string ground, but I've never heard their technical explanation why. There's plenty of examples to the contrary like your guitar. I actually remember one of my coworkers some time ago arguing with their support about this in the course of trouble shooting an 81/85 pair a customer thought was defective.
 
EMG manuals have always said to remove the string ground, but I've never heard their technical explanation why.

Yeah . . . I've spent over half a century in electronics, and I don't understand why, or why not, either. I can't see where it would make a difference.
 
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